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Spifs, Pricing, Mergers and Trends: Week of Nov. 10
Prices, Policies and Spifs Come January, Tech Data will reward the top solution providers in each of its business units. Rewards include education and training, marketing funds, special pricing on support, and more. The first loyalty programs focuses on the components business unit. Hitachi Data Systems revived its lead-generation program and announced it will offer…
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Five Ways To Win CRM Customers
CRM is rebounding. Despite reports of high failure rates (as high as 50 to 80 percent, according to Gartner Group and MetaGroup) almost half of all mid-sized companies are evaluating CRM systems. In fact, AMR Research Inc. suggests as much as 48 percent of mid-sized companies (organizations with revenues of less than $1 billion) are…
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Downsizing NAS, Ximeta Supplies Its Technology to Iomega
Edward Park, chief executive of startup Ximeta Inc. told Extreme Tech last week that he expected Iomega would announce today that it will license the Ximeta NDAS (Network Direct Attached Storage) technology. The Ximeta technology allows network-attached storage to also directly connect to a PC through a USB 2.0 or other connection. Park also said…
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Stock Index: Week Ended Nov. 14, 2003, Channel Stocks Dip Slightly
Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) was in an upbeat mood during a down week for most channel stocks. Shares in the El Segundo, Calif.-based IT services company rose 8.63 percent for the week ended Nov. 14, even as our overall Ziff Davis Channel Zone Stock Index slipped 1.64 percent, closing at 1044.29. Wall Street applauded CSC’s…
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SOYO Targets the Channel with ”All-in-One” System Boards
Ontario—Soyo Computer Inc. has announced a pair of “all-in-one” motherboards designed for building low-cost systems with embedded features like AGP graphics, six-channel audio, USB 2.0, Firewire and 10/100 Ethernet. The boards–the SY-P4VGA for Intel CPUs and the SY-K7VMP for AMD CPUs–are part the company’s efforts to grow its channel and system integrator business. Soyo is…
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Windows XP SP2 On The Way
Microsoft began to talk about the upcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows XP at its recent There was a time when service packs were mostly just bunches of individual patches consolidated into a single program. Sure, there were new features in them but they were subtle features, like a new tab on a dialog box.…